When using Flexloops the metronome has a distorted sound. Turn Flexloops off and sound is normal. This has actually been happening for several versions.
Cannot reproduce at all.
We’d need way more information. If distortion starts at a certain point (not always when switching FlexLoops?), it could be audio gets out of sync, but then everything is distorted, not just the metronome, and reset audio (or “Panic” with reset audio on) would fix it?
I turn flexloop on the metronome is distorted, turn flexloop off no distortion. It is very consistent in the behavior. It doesn’t matter what output is assigned to the metronome the results are the same.
It doesn’t matter what song I use the results are the same as above.
What I mean by distortion is the normal stick sound turns into a very short static sound. It sounds nothing like the normal drum stick sound.
Here are my settings:
Metronome:
Flexloop and Song:
Mixer:
works fine here (Widows, 512 samples), with or without FlexLoops, at tempo 90.666 (or any other)
a) only metro distorted or entire audio?
b) other Tempo, same result?
c) other blocksize, same result?
My routing setup is similar, and can’t produce such problem 
Only metro distorted
All tempos
Yes, change buffer size from 96 to 512. I get the same results.
Here is a clip of what the audio sounds like:
No idea. Nobody ever reported anything remotely similar.
Would you have another system to test if it’s the same there?
When I get a chance I’ll set it up on my laptop with a different audio interface (Steinberg UR44), but may be a week or so, before I can get to it.
On another note: the Metronome is not saving output settings. It keeps reverting back to Stereo Out, even though I save it to Song Groups SHeadMix and SSpeakMix.
I tested the metro distortion issue on a HP Victus Laptop (specs in attached screenshot below). Using a Steinberg UR44 audio interface. The results are the same. When I use the metronome on songs with multiple parts and flexloop on, the metronome is distorted. It sounds exactly the same as the recording I sent. I tried changing the sound from stick to beep, but it is still distorted.
It certainly has nothing to do with the OS.
As said, this is really weird as nobody else has it. So it would be best if you could send a project.
Also check the CPU meter.
Here is a sample project with 1 song that I created from scratch. Metro is distorted.
The CPU meter hardly comes off zero with this sample project.
Thanks for the test project.
It’s quite remarkable that you forgot to mention that there is a tempo change on literally each and every beat, given that this is a metronome issue 
We can reproduce it with that and will check.
Sorry about that. Didn’t think of since it’s not unusual to have tempo changes in a song. The tempo track was produced by Cubase tempo detection. It is hypersensitive.
Not your fault!
Yes and no, actually, most users have just one tempo/Song, vast majority of pop songs have.
We will probably not be able to solve it for todays’ version, sorry, but we can reproduce it and will fix it with the next one.
One more thing…with your project, Metronome is distorted all the time, regardless of FlexLoop state. Are you sure it’s clean (set to “Beep” makes it more obvious) with FlexLoops off?
Metro channel output: saves fine here. In fact, need to set it to Stereo Out to hear it, opposite to your observation.
Metro is clean when flexloop is off. Changing it to beep or stick is distorted when flexloop is on.
If I save it to stereo or headphones it saves fine. It doesn’t save if I save it to a song group.
Weird. But it doesn’t matter anyway, we can reproduce and will fix it.